NFC ACADEMY ENGLISH IV HONORS COURSE OVERVIEW English IV Honors continues to build on the sequential development and integration of communication skills in four major areas reading, writing, speaking, and listening. It most specifically focuses on deepening and furthering students' understanding in the following ways: OBJECTIVES READING reinforces reading comprehension skills by teaching students comprehension techniques for literary fiction, poetry, and drama, including discussion of common literary devices; shows students how to analyze, evaluate, and interpret a text; reinforces awareness of the elements and structure of narrative and expository prose; guides students through English literary history, including readings of Shakespeare s Hamlet, Milton s Paradise Lost, Beowulf, Bunyan s The Pilgrim s Progress, and other selections of and excerpts from major English literary figures. WRITING develops students writing skills by teaching about clauses and phrases in sentence structures; reviews common sentence and paragraph construction errors and methods for avoiding them; teaches Greek and Latin roots and prefixes to enhance vocabulary and spelling skills; expands students abilities to write cohesive and coherent NFC Academy Page 1 of 7 English IV Honors
expository prose; gives students the opportunity to develop their abilities in writing literary critiques, poetry, short stories, and expository prose. LISTENING teaches effective listening comprehension skills, weaving these throughout the lessons; builds upon students' study skills as well as helps them to become reliable and efficient note takers. SPECIAL TOPICS- incorporates research skills, including internet, library, and reference material use, throughout the curriculum. CURRICULUM CONTENTS READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS Context, Denotation, Connotation, and Symbolism Phrase Recognition Drills Reading Drama Reading Poetry Reading Aloud and Recognizing Scansion Reading Skills Analysis, Evaluation, and Interpretation Strategies for Comprehension Making Inferences, Identifying Main Ideas, and Reading for Details Word Recognition Drills COMPOSITION Diction Errors Trite Expressions and Stilted/Vague Language Essays Planning, Outlining, Writing, and Revising Sentence Construction Errors Fragments, Dangling Construction, Parallelism, Reference, Agreement, and Logical Errors Paragraph Construction Coherence, Transition, and Unity Paragraph Construction Errors Coherence, Transition, Shift in Person, Shift in Tense, and Shift in Number Subordination Writing a Brief Biography Writing about British History Writing a Character Study Writing a Character Sketch NFC Academy Page 2 of 7 English IV Honors
Writing a Compare/Contrast Essay Writing about Literary Forms Writing a Literary Critique Writing Poetry Writing about Poetry Analysis, Interpretation, and Evaluation Writing a Short Story GRAMMAR AND USAGE Approaches to Grammar Generative, Structural, Transformational, and Traditional Levels of Language Use Slang and Colloquialisms Linguistic Theory Mechanics Abbreviations, Capitalization, Hyphens, Italics, and Numbers Parts of Speech Adjectives, Adverbs, Infinitives, Nouns, Pronouns, and Verbs Semantics Sentence Structure Clauses, Conjunctions, Interjections, and Phrases Word Choice LITERATURE STUDIES Drama o Elements Structure, Theme, Setting, Style, Character, and Literary Device o Genre/Type Medieval Drama and Elizabethan Drama Fiction o Elements Structure, Theme, Mood, Point of View, Character, Dialogue, Setting, Style, Satire, and Literary Device o Literary Device Alliteration, Allusion, Imagery, Metaphor, and Personification History of English Literature from 1000-1800 Poetry o Elements Structure, Meter, Rhyme, Symbolism, and Subject Matter NFC Academy Page 3 of 7 English IV Honors
o Literary Device Alliteration, Apostrophe, Assonance, Caesura, Consonance, Hyperbole, Kenning, Metonymy, Metaphor, Onomatopoeia, Paradox, Personification, Simile, Sprung Rhythm, and Synecdoche o Genre/Type Sonnet, Dream Vision, Ballad, Elegy, Brenton Lay, Epic, Gnome, Free Verse, Blank Verse, Dramatic Monologue, Mock-Heroic, and Satire VOCABULARY BUILDING Context Clues Etymology Greek/Latin Prefixes and Roots SPECIAL TOPICS The Bible as Literature Listening Skills Origin/Development of Language Old and Middle English Research Skills Internet, Library, and Reference Materials Study Skills Note Taking ADDITIONAL RESOURCES In addition to the basic course program which includes daily lesson assignments, periodic quizzes and unit tests English IV Honors includes extra alternate projects and tests for use in enhancing instruction or addressing individual needs when assigned. Students in any honors course should expect to complete more extensive research and writing for the successful completion of the course in addition to the basic course program for the course. LITERATURE LIST Following are literary works students will encounter in English IV Honors. DRAMA NFC Academy Page 4 of 7 English IV Honors
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet FICTION Bunyan, John. Pilgrim s Progress (excerpt) Swift, Jonathan. "A Modest Proposal" POETRY "Barbara Allen s Cruelty" Beowulf (excerpts) Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. o "Sonnet 43" o "A Thought for a Lonely Death-bed" o "A Child Asleep" Browning, Robert. o "Home Thoughts from Abroad" o "My Last Duchess" Byron, Lord (George Gordon). o Chide Harold's Pilgrimage (excerpt) o "The Destruction of Sennacherib" o Don Juan (excerpt) Campion, Thomas. o The Third and Fourth Book of Ayres (excerpt) Chaucer, Geoffrey. Canterbury Tales (excerpts) Chesterson, G.K. "The Donkey" Coleridge, Samuel. o "Epitaph" o "Kubla Khan" Dekker, Thomas. "Golden Slumbers Kiss Your Eyes" from The Pleasant Comedy of Patient Grisill Donne, John. "Death, Be Not Proud" Goldsmith, Oliver. "The Deserted Village" Hopkins, Gerard Manley. "God s Grandeur" Jonson, Ben. "The Triumph of Charis" Keats, John. o "Ode on a Grecian Urn" o "On First Looking into Chapman s Homer" NFC Academy Page 5 of 7 English IV Honors
o "When I Have Fears" Macleish, Archibald. "Ars Poetica" Milton, John. o "Lycidas" (excerpt) o "On the Morning of Christ s Nativity" (excerpts) o Paradise Lost (excerpts) o "Sonnet XIX" Nashe, Thomas. "Spring the Sweet Spring..." from Summer s Last Will and Testament "The Ruin" "The Seafarer" Pope, Alexander. The Dunciad (excerpt) Shakespeare, William. o "Song" from Cymbaline o "Song" from Much Ado about Nothing o "Sonnet XVII" o "Sonnet XXIX" o "Sonnet CXVI" o "Sonnet LV" Shelley, Percy. o "Ode to the West Wind" o "Ozymandias" o "Song to the Men of England" Spenser, Edmund. o "Sonnet XV" o "Sonnet XXXIV" Sydney, Sir Phillip. o "Sonnet XXXI" o "Sonnet XL." Tennyson, Alfred. o "Break, Break, Break" o "Crossing the Bar" o "Flower in the Crannied Wall" o In Memoriam (excerpt) o "Sweet and Low" o "The Wanderer" NFC Academy Page 6 of 7 English IV Honors
Wordsworth, William. o "It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free" o "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" o "London, 1802" o "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways" REQUIRED RESOURCES Some assignments in this course require the use of resources that must be acquired separately. These outside resources are listed below by assignment. Unit Assignment Resource 8 Various Projects Bible 1999, 2002, 2005, 2011 Glynlyon, Inc. GRADING INFORMATION GRADING COMPONENTS (Honor s Courses) Lessons 30% Quizzes 25% Projects 15% Tests 30% GRADING SCALE 100-90 A 89-80 B 79-70 C 69-60 D Below 60 F NFC Academy Page 7 of 7 English IV Honors